print
- Museum number
- 1975,1025.124
- Title
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Object: El sueño de la razon produce monstruos (The sleep of reason produces monsters)
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Series: Los Caprichos
- Description
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Plate 43: figure sleeping, cats, owls and bats behind; from an unbound album of trial proofs. c.1797-8
Etching and aquatint
- Production date
- 1799
- Dimensions
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Height: 215 millimetres
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Width: 150 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Lit.: M.P. McDonald, exhib.cat., BM, London, `Renaissance to Goya: Prints and drawings from Spain`, 2012, fig.12, p.242.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1999 Feb-Mar, Essex University Gallery, 'Goya'
2000 May-Jul, Manchester, Whitworth AG, 'Endings: The Time of Our Lives'
2001 Jun-Sep, London, Tate Britain, 'Gillray and the Art of Caricature'
2012/13 Sept-Jan, London, British Museum, ‘Renaissance to Goya: Prints and Drawings from Spain’
2013, Aug-Nov, Sydney, AGNSW, 'Renaissance to Goya'
2013-4, Dec-Mar, Santa Fe, New Mexico Museum of Modern Art, 'Renaissance to Goya'
- Acquisition date
- 1975
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1975,1025.124
